Princeton Women's Basketball Battles Dartmouth At Home Saturday

PRINCETON - The Women's Basketball Team welcomes Dartmouth to Jadwin on Saturday. Tip-off is 1 p.m.

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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 16-5 this season after defeating the Cornell Big Red and Columbia Lions on the road last weekend.

•With the win, the Tigers moved into a first-place tie with Harvard and Columbia at 7-2.

• The Tigers jumped out with a 17-5 run taking a 50-35 lead with 65 seconds left in the third quarter against the Big Red. Princeton never allowed Cornell to get within 10 the rest of the game.

•Head coach Carla Berube won her 450th career game with the decision over Cornell. After posting a 384-96 record (.800) in 17 years with Tufts University, she has secured a 67-11 mark (.859) at Princeton.

•Princeton led by as many as 16 before taking a 36-21 lead into halftime at Columbia. It was a balanced attack for the Tigers with five different players scoring at least six points in the half.

•The road squad stretched its advantage to 21, but the Lions went on a 15-4 sprint to get within 10 before Kaitlyn Chen hit the final shot of the third stanza.

•Columbia never got closer in the fourth quarter.

•Julia Cunningham registered her 1,000th career point in the game at Columbia becoming the 27th player in program history to reach that milestone.

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Feb. 8
•Ellie Mitchell is 10th in the country in rebounds per game (11.1), 12th in offensive rebounds per contest (4.0), 18th in total rebounds (233) and 29th in defensive rebounds per game (7.1).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in 14 games this season and 12+ in 10 contests. Her 11.1 rebounds per game would be the fifth best in program history and would be the highest mark since 1978.

•Against Seton Hall, she became only the third person since 2009-10 to have at least 23 rebounds and six steals in a game (Javonna Layfield (Dayton), 12/31/17), Kylie Kuhns (Sacramento St., 12/1/10).

•Mitchell became the first player in the NCAA to record at least 12 rebounds and eight steals in a game this season at Maine.

•She is also only the 10th player since 2009-10 to have at least seven points, 12 rebounds, three assists and eight steals in a contest and the first since February of 2018.

•Her 714 career rebounds are 9th in program history.

•The junior is 25th in the nation in steals per game (2.67) and 31st in steals (56).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 14.0 points per game and field goal percentage (44.9). She has scored in double figures in every game except for four.

•She sits 71st nationally in assists per game (4.4) and in 89th in assists (93).

•Chen was named Ivy Player of the Week on Monday, the second of her career.

•Madison St. Rose has scored 61.6 percent of her total points for the season in the last eight games, all of which Princeton has won. She's averaged 14.8 points during that stretch.

•St. Rose was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the third time this season on Monday. Last week, she was named the United States Basketball Writers' Association's Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Week.

•Paige Morton has scored 88 points this season, 57 more than last season. She's averaging 2.6 points more (4.2) than the 2021-22 campaign. Morton and Parker Hill combined to go 10-of-10 from the floor at Dartmouth

•Grace Stone has made at least one three in every game except for three and is shooting 40.0 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 10.0 points per game. The senior has gone from 4.2 points as a freshman, 5.8 points as a sophomore and 9.3 points as a junior to her current mark.

•Stone has appeared in 109 games in her career while Cunningham has seen time in 107 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 106.

•If Princeton plays in the same number of games as last year, barring injury, Stone would finish with 118 games, good for third all-time while Cunningham would finish with 116, fourth most and Connolly would end with 115 games, tied for fifth.

•The Tigers had five players score in double figures at Dartmouth, marking the first time they have done that since playing Buffalo in December of 2021.

•After shooting 1-of-13 from deep vs. Temple, Princeton has made at least three treys in each game since except for the Rhode Island contest. The Tigers knocked down a season-best 12 threes vs. Hartford.

•The Tigers have at least 10 assists in each game this season except for two. Princeton's 28 helpers vs. Hartford were two shy of the program record.

•After having nine steals in the first two games combined, the Tigers have produced 10 steals in 11 games since.

•The Tigers ranked in the top 100 nationally in the following ...

Scoring Defense (54.7) - 19th
Turnover Margin (+4.81) - 26th
Net Ranking - 42nd
Fewest Turnovers per game (13.8) - 46th
Scoring Margin (+11.4) - 48th
Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.07) - 57th
Rebound Margin (+5.8) - 58th
Turnovers Forced per contest (18.57) - 64th
Steals per game (9.1) - 75th
Offensive Rebounds per game (13.1) - 77th
Field Goal Percentage Defense (37.9) - 78th
Assists per contest (14.7) - 88th

•The Tigers had over 1,000 fans at Jadwin for the game vs. Columbia (1,113) and vs. Cornell (1,017). It was the first time since the 2015-16 season that Princeton had two consecutive home games with over 1,000 fans. The Tigers also had 1,322 fans at their game vs. Brown, 1,018 fans vs. Penn, 1,223 fans vs. Yale.

•Princeton's 15-point comeback at Rutgers is the largest of the Carla Berube era, topping the 12-point rally at Yale in February of 2020.

•Grace Stone's buzzer beater vs. Rhode Island was the team's first buzzer beater since Eileen Powers' putback with one-second remaining in overtime lifted the Tigers past Southwest Texas State, 82-81, at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas on Nov. 23, 2002.

2022-23 Her Hoops Information ...
Stats Through Feb. 8
•Princeton is ranked No. 11 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (77.8), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 35 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (24.5), a rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

•Berube's unit is also No. 36 in Simple RPI (60.6) which treats all games equally (25% Team Win %, 50% Average Opponent Win %, 50% Average Opponent's Average Opponent Win %). It is different from the NCAA RPI because the NCAA RPI values home wins as 0.6 wins, home losses as 1.4 losses, away wins as 1.4 wins, and away losses as 0.6 losses.

•The Tigers' opponents are only scoring .71 points per play, 24th best in the country.

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 29.8 percent - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 4.2 - 94th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 2.7 - 92nd percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.58 - 91st percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.5% - 89th percentile
Usage Rate - 24.8 - 85th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Win Shares - 3.1 - 4th overall
Defensive Rating - 69.5- 18th overall
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.9% - 20th overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 20.9% - 23rd overall
Steal Rate - 4.8 percent - 33rd overall
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 14.7% - 98th percentile
Win Shares - 4.1 - 94th percentile

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 2.0 - 97th percentile
Defensive Rating - 79.4 - 95th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.6 percent - 96th
Win Shares - 3.9- 93rd percentile
Assist Rate - 22.4 percent - 89th percentile

Shoot Around Fun ...
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot.
Maggie Connolly - 6
Paige Morton, Amelia Osgood, Lexi Weger, Grace Stone - 2
Ellie Mitchell, Kaitlyn Chen, Julia Cunningham and Madison St. Rose - 1.

Breakfast is King ...
The team led by captain Maggie Connolly and Katie Thiers have ranked each road trip's breakfast. Harvard, 9.0 (omelette bar, lots of variety, Texas - 8.5 (Great variety, mini waffles a hit), UConn - 8.5 (less variety by high quality), Columbia - 7.8 (great bacon and eggs, but the room was freezing), Dartmouth - 7.5 (good pancakes and sausage, but eggs and bacon were meh), Towson - 6.5 (basic), Cornell - 5.3 (runny eggs, not many options), Maine - 3.5 (there was food).

Super Eagle Week ...
The guy who makes these game notes' favorite football team, the Philadelphia Eagles, is in the Super Bowl this weekend. Princeton is 2-1 in games that either immediately follow or precede Super Bowls that the Philadelphia Eagles are in.

1981 - Princeton 61, Howard 60
              Oakland Raiders 27, Philadelphia Eagles 10
2005 - Harvard 67, Princeton 51
               New England Patriots 24, Philadelphia Eagles 21
2018 - Princeton 67, Brown 52
              Philadelphia Eagles 41, New England Patriots 33

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